Saturday 15 May 2010
After the latest chapter, “Gunnora comes to the crossing of seven roads,” I thought we needed a good map of the area, so I threw one together this morning. (Click for a big version.)
Finding exact borders between all these duchies, counties, kingdoms, and ecclesiastical city-states at a given moment in time over nine hundred years ago is practically impossible, so I didn’t bother trying. I did color-code the city labels to show what territory they belonged to in 1086, as near as I can tell.
- Yellow
- Kingdom of England and Duchy of Normandy
- Magenta
- County of Flanders
- Fuchsia (is there a difference?)
- County of Hainaut – at times during our story this was part of Flanders, but not in 1086
- Green
- County of Vermandois
- Orange
- Kingdom of France
- Dark Blue
- Duchy of Lower Lotharingia
- Light Blue
- Duchy of Upper Lotharingia
- Brick Red
- Saxony
I think I covered all the places mentioned in the story so far.
As long as I am at it, here’s a map of the Isle of Man. I plan on putting up a Maps section of the site one of these days, but this map is already done.
These maps are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. Credit for the original images goes to Eric Gaba for both France (on which the map centered on Flanders is based) and the Isle of Man.
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Hi Lothere
If it could help, I have a historical atlas that has pretty detailed maps of france and germany, but especially Belgium and the Netherlands in the 10th to 14th century. If you would like, I will try to scan it and send them to you?